Psalms 142:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 142

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⁵I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

Psalms 142:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 16:5
The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Lamentations 3:24
The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Psalms 119:57
CHETH. Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.
2 Timothy 4:17
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Psalms 91:2
I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-7)

The psalmist here tells us, for our instruction, 1. How he was disowned and deserted by his friends, Ps. 142:4. When he was in favour at court he seemed to have a great interest, but when he was made an out-law, and it was dangerous for any one to harbour him (witness Ahimelech’s fate), then no man would know him, but every body was shy of him. He looked on his right hand for an advocate (Ps. 109:…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. (Compare Psa 31:14; 62:7).